Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona

AMB took part in the extraordinary session of the Board of CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), which named Professor Antoni Segura, historian and specialist in conflict analysis, as the new president of the institution. During this session, the board has also approved the appointment of seven new members. With this enlargement, the number of board members has increased from 15 to 23.

Segura has expressed his willingness to maintain and strengthen the areas of expertise at which CIDOB excels, particularly the Middle East and Latin America, while proposing to reinforce its other thematic axes: cities and regions, urban models and territorial organization; territorial tensions at the international level and parallel diplomacy. The AMB Area for International Relations and Cooperation works on these topics through different networks in order to provide cities with the tools and capabilities to manage their growth.

The strategic relationship between AMB and the CIDOB Foundation is a collaboration of great importance for the Barcelona Metropolitan Area in terms of research, documentation, building international relationships, and development in areas such as Latin America, the Mediterranean, the Arab world, Europe and Asia.